Has anybody seen her show at Victoria Miro? I wont be able to and i was curious to know what does anybody think of it? Looks good on the website and in great a book you can flick through, linked to from the VM site, but no substitute for the real thing especially with a painter like her. I didn't li...

Two things occur to me reading this. One is, I can't think of a European painter who does something similar to Currin or Yuskavage. I mean paint technically excellent but otherwise dull paintings and make a stellar career out of it? I think here we prefer the less polished but more open-ended. The o...

Would you not say that western art followed a natural progression which led up to modernism and a situation where no artists were interested in producing 'great' paintings in the way that Rembrandt was great. Like, Picasso could have painted like Ingres if he had wanted to kind of thing. People will...

I find it a quite bizarre show in terms of narrative structure or whatever. The first 3 were quite dull and clichéd, i thought,then it kind of took off in number 4 when one of the guys went under cover, kind of climaxed in the next one and has been drifting on since then. Like a soap opera but with ...

I agree Buzz, it wasn't great. i found it all very repetitive.I didn't see it in 3D though. am I the only person over 6 years of age in the entire galaxy never to have seen a 3D film? I watched a film called Europa Report last night which I enjoyed. Its like Gravity with a fraction of the budget and...

for bread, I'd slice some ciabatta length ways, put a little bit of olive oil on it and put it face down in the griddle pan the meat was just done in. I think. Actually, it might be a bit tough for a burger but its great for a steak sarnie.

I love the names this band has chosen. Their album is called Oh My Sexy Lord and the first track on it is called Ewok Sadness. Great! Their music sounds wonderful too. This track sounds a bit like Poliça (disterted vocals, drumming), some of the members are in both bands. There's also a connection w...

Privileged young adults in Dublin larking about in Mum's car, drinking cans of beer and enjoying life... then something bad happens. The best Irish film I've seen. Director Lenny Abrahamson's third film. He's great, check it out.

I had a look at the Charlie Smith site but unfortunately there are no images of the show or from the individual artists... maybe all in good time. I couldn't read through the written info above, maybe I should and it would be some substitute for seeing images of the work?... i just can't though.

har har, Cyril Cussack perving over Scarlett Johansson (or whoever Woody's current 'muse' is), that i would like to see. Apart from the unmistakable Woody Allen Schtick all the clones have to/want to ape I'm as disappointed in the horrible characters he seems to identify with, like Wilson's preppy, ...

that was Hannah and her Sisters, which I really liked. i thought Michael Caine was ok in it.The list of shame for Woody Allen impersonations would have to be topped by Whatshisname Cussack and by Brannagh.Opposite end of the spectrum was Sean Penn in Sweet 'n' Lowdown (which I thought was great).

I'd recommend this. The narrator is a 40ish piss-head not-so-successful painter doing a year long residency at a neurology clinic. Genuinely funny episodes alternate with fascinating info on how the human brain works.read it!

This is a group biography of about 5 painters who went to the Slade at the start of the last century. Stanley Spencer, Dora Carrington, Paul Nash and all. These dudes took themselves seriously, were comically passionate and were fond of suicide. it's good.

POO! Steve Mcqueen is quite the artist but he can't make a film worth shit.Looks ok but the story is full of cliches and boring. zero insight in to the world of porn or whatever it was supposed to be.Loads of pubic hair, but for that i can look in my pants.

I have watched the first series, or should I say season, and in case anybody is wondering if they should commit to it in the hope of any sort of resolution by that stage I would say not to. It is entertaining though with a couple of good twists but I am always put off by the sense that it's just goi...

I didn't like it. The inevitability element makes a film a dud from the start... of course the apes are going to win, it's in the title! I was disapointed with the decision to make the main sympathetic character in the film the ape, who gives a shit about apes? The main ape wears trousers throughout...

i haven't seen the show cos i'm not in london but looking online i must agree the painings look very boring. And i think they look their best in the context of the gallery... imagine how much more crap they would look anywhere else. I liked his show in the Whitechapel about 12 years ago but I don't ...